The Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project (RSHRP), the world’s largest and longest-running cold climate conservation programme, has been running for over 21 years.
Members of the Trust’s 2024-25 On-Ice Conservation team touched down on Ross Island in late November. Since then, they have undertaken work tasks on historic explorer bases at Scott Base, Hut Point, and most recently, Cape Royds.
The Trust’s On-Ice Conservation team spent thirteen weeks in Antarctica this season, from early November until late January, undertaking an intensive digital data capture project, followed by the annual conservation programme at the historic Ross Island explorer bases of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Pip Cheshire and Julian Bickersteth, members of the Trust’s Conservation Design Team, have both received high honours.
Nicola Stewart, Antarctic Heritage Trust Lead Conservator for the 2023-24 summer conservation season, recounts her first encounter with Scott’s ‘Discovery’ hut in 2006, and the ongoing conservation efforts conserving its legacy.
The team repatriated several items to Scott’s Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans this season including an improvised sledge distance meter wheel once owned by George Murray Levick.
159,000 images have been processed so far by the project team transitioning the Trust’s image assets to an online database called Recollect.
Two historic Antarctic artefacts are on their way home after more than 60 years and a trip around the globe.
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